|
|
Click on photos for a more detailed image.
| Scott# 4270a | Plate V1111 | ||
| Series | USPS - Love ~ PNC3 - Love | ||
| Issue Date & City | June 10, 2008, Washington, DC 20066 | ||
| Nationwide Sale | June 10, 2008 | ||
| Designer | Ethel Kessler, Bethesda, MD | ||
| Art Director | Ethel Kessler, Bethesda, MD | ||
| Typographer | Ethel Kessler, Bethesda, MD | ||
| Artist | Paul Zwolak, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | ||
| Modeler | Avery Dennison, SPD | ||
| Engraver | Keating Gravure | ||
| To Press / Initial Impressions | Spring, 2008 / 750 Million stamps | ||
| Process | Gravure | ||
| Printer | Avery Dennison (AVR) | ||
| Printed At | AVR, Clinton, SC | ||
| Press | Dia Nippon Kiko (DNK) | ||
| Processed At | AVR, Clinton, SC | ||
| Plate Size | 840 stamps per revolution | ||
| Paper & Tagging | Prephosphored USPS Type II | ||
| Adhesive | Pressure Sensitive | ||
| Die Cut Gauge | 10.9 x 10.8 on 2 or 3 sides. | ||
| Colors | Yellow, Magenta, Cyan, Black | ||
| Image Area | (w x h): 1.05 x 0.77 in. / 26.67 x 19.56 mm | ||
| Overall Size | (w x h): 1.19 x 0.91 in. / 30.23 x 23.11 mm | ||
| Full Booklet Size | (w x h): 5.95 x 3.88 in. / 151.13 x 98.43 mm | ||
| Markings | Stamp
side: Plate
numbers in peel strip Cover side: © 2007 USPS • Barcode (677800) • USPS Logo • Promotional text • Stamp image • Price “$8.40” • “ALL HEART” • “Twenty 42-CENT FIRST-CLASS SELF-ADHESIVE Stamps” |
||
| Earliest Known Use | June 10, 2008 | ||
| USPS Order Numbers | 677840 Convertible Booklet of 20 - $8.40 | ||
| 677861
First Day Cover - $0.80 |
|||
| Availability |
Stamp Fulfillment Services, Kansas City and most Philatelic Centers. |
||
| Official Announcement |
On June 10, 2008, in Washington, DC, the Postal Service™ will issue a 42-cent, Love: All Heart commemorative stamp in one design in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) convertible booklet of 20 stamps (Item 677800). The stamp, designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland, goes on sale nationwide June 10, 2008. Illustrator Paul Zwolak of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, created the design for the 2008 Love series stamps. Entitled All Heart, the design focuses on a large, bright red heart that is transporting its owner to an unseen beloved who will be gifted with this heart full of love. | ||
| Press Release | |||
| End Card |
Black on
cream card. Click here
for a scan.| Note |
|
|
Customers have 60 days to obtain the first day of issue postmark by mail. They may purchase new stamps at their local Post Office™, or at The Postal Store® Web site at www.usps.com/shop, or by calling 800-STAMP-24. They should affix the stamps to envelopes of their choice, address the envelopes (to themselves or others), and place them in a larger envelope addressed to:
LOVE: ALL HEART
POSTMASTER
SPECIAL CANCELLATIONS
PO BOX 92282
WASHINGTON, DC 20066-2282
After applying the first day of issue postmark, the Postal Service will return the envelopes through the mail. There is no charge for the postmark. All orders must be postmarked by August 11, 2008.
Stamp Fulfillment Services also offers first day covers for new stamp issues and Postal Service stationery items postmarked with the official first day of issue cancellation.
Each item has an individual catalog number and is offered in the quarterly USA Philatelic catalog. Customers may request a free catalog by calling 800-STAMP-24 or writing to:
INFORMATION FULFILLMENT
DEPT 6270
US POSTAL SERVICE
PO BOX 219014
KANSAS CITY MO 64121-9014
There are three philatelic products available for this stamp issue:
Item 677861, *First Day Cover, $.80
Item 677865, *Digital Color Postmark, $1.50
Item 677899, *Cancellation Keepsake (DCP cover/pane), $9.90
Items with an asterisk (*) will use the 128 barcode from Stamp Fulfillment Services. All other philatelic products will continue to use barcode series A, with the exception of the Yearbook and the Guide Book.
Stamp distribution offices (SDOs) will receive approximately 50 percent of their standard automatic distribution quantity for a PSA booklet. Distributions are rounded up to nearest master carton size (4,000 booklets).
SDOs will make a subsequent automatic distribution to Post Offices of one-half their standard automatic distribution quantity for booklets using PS Form 17, Stamp Requisition/Stamp Return. SDOs must not distribute these booklets to Post Offices before June 4, 2008.
Post Offices requiring additional Item 677800 must requisition them from their designated SDO using PS Form 17. SDOs requiring additional booklets must order them from the appropriate accountable paper depository (APD) using PS Form 17.
For fulfilling supplemental orders from SDOs, the San Francisco, Chicago, Memphis, and New York APDs will each 1,200,000 additional booklets. The Denver APD will receive 400,000 additional booklets.
This page was last updated on 07/02/13
Page content and design
copyright © 2001-2011, R.E.M.
Please send corrections and comments to Webmaster
